Race Quotes · Page 123

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

— Robert Graves

It don't matter your race just take a blunt to the face.

— Kid Cudi

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

— Murray Walker

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

— J. G. Ballard

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

— Martin Amis

I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don't use it enough and there's so much you can do with it.

— Hailie Deegan

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

— Cathy Freeman

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

— Samantha Bee

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by…

— Johnny Colt

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the…

— Hannah Arendt

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In racing, things start coming up quicker, and the slipstream is stronger, so even judging in the mirrors how quick the cars…

— Daniel Ricciardo

“It's not convenience that bothers me, it's people's obsession with saving time. Everything's a race. I just don't get who or what…

— Katie Kacvinsky

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize…

— Liam Neeson

Winning races is very difficult - actually, it's not: you just have to qualify in front, and then it's much easier, from…

— Toto Wolff

I'm not going to be running round at the back of the grid, or even in midfield, just for the sake of…

— Dario Franchitti

As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has…

— Horatio Bottomley

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man…

— Gabrielle Union

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du…

— Mark McKinnon

I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent…

— Roger Zelazny

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon…

— Jenson Button

"X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It…

— Michael Fassbender

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed…

— John Brunner

I always loved running… It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

— Jesse Owens

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

— David Henry Hwang

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

— Mike Huckabee

On the history of black people in Britain, again, our history of race is not America's history of race.

— Kemi Badenoch

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past.

— Sam Bird

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

— B. B. King

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

— Bobby Rahal

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

— Thomas King

I think if you're a race car driver you want to succeed and be the best in your realm of racing.

— Kyle Busch

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?

— Steve Prefontaine

Id love to work with the team in IndyCar; I just wont be behind the wheel anymore.

— Dario Franchitti

Sometimes I'll see a girl jogging that's so sexy, I'll jog directly behind her ass until she gets home.

— Nikhil Saluja

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

— Huston Smith

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

— Frank Shorter

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

— Marcus Ericsson

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

— Robert A. Heinlein